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[Mike]

Posted by ulli (here)

there seems to be a direct relationship between frequent, deep meditation and man boobs.

why are these holy men always in such pathetic shape?

[42]

bet they are reading the thread on windows 10 issues and chuckling ....

[ulli]

Posted by Mike (here)

Posted by ulli (here)

there seems to be a direct relationship between frequent, deep meditation and man boobs.

why are these holy men always in such pathetic shape?

Well, we never see them running marathons. They are sitters.

Anyway, I thought they weren't too bad, compared to some of the Buddha statues I've seen.

[Mike]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by Mike (here)

Posted by ulli (here)

there seems to be a direct relationship between frequent, deep meditation and man boobs.

why are these holy men always in such pathetic shape?

Well, we never see them running marathons. They are sitters.

Anyway, I thought they weren't too bad, compared to some of the Buddha statues I've seen.

Very true.

Which begs the question: why is the buddha so fat?

Maybe I expect too much. I just don't understand how, in all thier wisdom, they can let themselves go like that...

Youre right, the guys in pic don't look that bad. I think my expectations were skewering my perception...I just finished 'autobiography of a yogi', and with the exception of sri yukteswar, all the monks are pot bellied with sagging chests..

I spose I shouldnt be surprised...they are indeed sitters

[Carmody]

Involvement with the world is contrary to the effect and change they are trying to engender in themselves.

Exercise is of that human avatar nature where the body takes over during the given work done.

those few hours are like neural reinforcement, and that's a bad thing.

Likened to: "It's been zero days since I shot heroin".

[42]

Posted by Mike (here)

Posted by ulli (here)

there seems to be a direct relationship between frequent, deep meditation and man boobs.

why are these holy men always in such pathetic shape?

Steve... Steve... are you there....?

[ulli]

Hinduism is a few thousand years older than Buddhism, and had already deteriorated by the time the Buddha brought his teachings.
To my knowledge the Buddha did not advocate statue worship; if anything, he wanted to take people away from those habits.

Yet human nature being what it is, people needed their physical reminders, and so they carried on just as they had done before. Building statues and collecting relics. Many fakes there, too, as no human being has as many bones as are attributed to have belonged to the Buddha, and are kept in holy shrines throughout Asia.

Fat bellies are a sign of non starvation. The laughing face is symbolic of happiness.
Whoever created those statues had the intent to sway the masses towards congregational worship.

[42]

Posted by 42 (here)

Posted by Mike (here)

Posted by ulli (here)

there seems to be a direct relationship between frequent, deep meditation and man boobs.

why are these holy men always in such pathetic shape?

Steve... Steve... are you there....?

Ok .. wait... finally! iPhone 7 has a flush rear mounted camera...

[amor]

Why are the holy men in such pathetic shape? Because they eat too much rice and curry and sit still incessantly to meditate instead of using (developing) their muscles.

[Guest]

They look kind of silly.

The yogis and monks on the mountain do have a clear strong energy and internal strength which their body mass doesn't display obviously.
But they do get stuck in their minds and become addicted to meditation -seeking enlightenment. I have met a few that do not live in monasteries anymore and brought their wisdom and teachings to others. They do idolize statues and are quite patriarchal in their thinking and ways though. Heavily so. I've always been inclined to think that going within was the best way to meditate and not for any longer than forty-five minutes to an hour a day. Balance and Love.


Here and now I've been reading about midpoints in astrology. Mostly the Sun/Moon midpoint, which is a sensitive point. I'm new at astrology so I started with the Sun and the moon.

Had a couple of ahas of my own though -conjunctions of planets on my midpoints within three degree orb.

Café astrology has a very good how-to-calculate-your-own midpoints page here midpoints

and there is also a site called Teach Me Astrology that will do it for you and gives a bit of an interpretation of each midpoints for the planets, nodes and for the MC & AC. http://teachmeastrology.com/midpoint-calculator/


Love

Nora

[araucaria]

This Nepalese ultra-trail champion Dawa Sherpa is maybe not a sadhu but he was a Buddhist monk until when he was 13 his Dad died and he went to look after his family. He runs ultramarathons as a hobby and is not particularly interested in winning but often wins anyway. He channels cash and effort back home, opening a monastic school and helping out after the Everest earthquake etc.

And he doesn’t train because he says he gets enough daily exercise as a bricklayer. Makes you wonder (and this goes for meditation too): should you train to do ridiculous ultra-performances by doing ridiculous performances every day instead of just once in a while? We all know that as far as thinking goes, training hard is not the answer: moments of inspiration come through resting the mind and cross-fertilization with other things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachhiri_Sherpa
http://www.dawasherpa-experiences.co...ex.html#courir
http://www.videotrail.fr/2012/07/vid...wa-sherpa.html

[Violet]

"Fat"ness, wasn't considered fatness just in the Middle Ages. In Western Europe lots of people want to have a visible tan. I hear in Spain it gives you status because a tan means you have enough time to linger at the beach (enough money in the bank). Elsewhere in Europe people just tan because they don't want to look sick. From here to higher up Russia, it can get very white with no sun, and I agree, sometimes that looks a bit scary (see portrait n°...). And yet, it's not a globally shared ideal. In the wider East (Middle and Central) and Northern Africa from history up to this very day white is the beauty ideal. You will read in poems that "she had a face full as the moon and white as milk". Tanned is for the slaves and workers who have to endure the sun in the fields. It's not an active association people make today (I hope), but that's where it comes from. Think of countries like India, China and Arab countries in general.

History also delivers us artwork portraying the locals and their local life in (that's usually how it, photoshoppishly, worked) idealised form. We notice from medieval paintings the general fullness of the people. The heads show fullness by their uniform roundedness. I stress general because thin people (whatever the reason of thinness, and they vary) existed also in the Middle Ages.

Generally you will recall from history class medieval people to look like:


Pieter Paul Rubens' Infant with a Bird




Cornelis de Vos' A Family Portrait





Pieter Paul Rubens' Christ deposition


Overall, chubby people in not always ideal situations.



I found some portraits in Rogier van der Weyden's oeuvre (member of the art collective Vlaamse Primitieven (lit. Flemish Primitives. Again, I'm sure they did not consider themselves that primitive, at least not in the way we understand the word).

This is Rogier van der Weyden's Portrait of a Lady. The lady has no sharply defined jawline (she or Van der Weyden didn't even add bronze contouring to fake it)




Another Portrait of a Lady with a more defined bone structure.




A slimmer lady but what's more?



A tanned version? Lol, no. It's an X-ray of the same version. It reveals the portrayed lady with a slimmer waistline.

So now, we can wonder about why Van der Weyden, corrected this.

If you were full in the Middle Ages, it meant you had money to buy good food, food that will show on you. If you were thin, there's a great chance you belonged to the working class, and had to pay lots of attention to the careful consumption of whatever scarce nutrition you had.

If the Buddha was not full by nature, then whoever decided to portray him fatter than he really was, might have thought it an honourable thing to do, according to the local perception of ideals.

Lots of love to K

And encouraging hugs for cccme .

[ulli]

This one is a tough one.
It's what jumped at me while browsing just now.

[ulli]

And here is an example of how one can move forward in life when trust is still present

[ulli]

...and something to keep it light...
Comedians in Cars getting Coffee
Jerry Seinfeld driving this wild car and Will Farrell is his passenger.

(And in case it's not your cup of tea here is a comment to act as a warning
"yeah, Jerry puts on a charade when he does these things. Nothing was really funny but there was a ton of hysterical laughing. It was exhausting")

http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee....-the-cigar-out

[Calz]

Posted by ulli (here)
And here is an example of how one can move forward in life when trust is still present

[ulli]

http://cultureofawareness.com/2016/0...t-frequencies/

Bio-resonance (like my MicroMat) getting more attention

A new cancer treatment is using resonant frequencies to shatter various types of cancer cells.

In his Tedx Talk, “Shattering Cancer with Resonant Frequencies,” Associate Professor and Director of Music at Skidmore College, Anthony Holland, tells the audience that he has a dream. That dream is to see a future where children no longer have to suffer from the effects of toxic cancer drugs or radiation treatment, and today he and his team believe they have found the answer.

Many of us have likely seen or heard of people shattering glass with the sound of their voice. This amazing feat, Holland explains, is due to a phenomenon called resonant frequency. When someone taps a glass, it emits a natural resonant frequency. To induce shattering, a person must match the resonant frequency of the glass with the vibration of their voice, getting louder and louder until the glass finally breaks.
More at link.

[eaglespirit]

Ahhhh, Family Multi Conversation of the Highest Order : )
...of a natural spirit enhancing modus operandi !

[ulli]

Me...at times. Becoming more frequent lately.

[dan33]

Posted by PurpleLama (here)


Love ya, bro.

Congratulations CALZ!!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4l2tLIZHlBQ

I have not been able to find Grease Lightning sung by Elvis.
I get films from parallel universes. I have a version of CHINATOWN. Starring Lee Marvin. Do not tell Curt. I am a smuggler.
Hugs for your 10,000 post !!